Adjective hollow has 4 senses
  1. hollow - not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year"
    Antonyms:
    solid, massive, unhollowed
  2. false, hollow - deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"
    Antonym: sincere (indirect, via insincere)
  3. hollow - as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"
    Antonyms:
    unreverberant, nonresonant (indirect, via reverberant)
  4. empty, hollow, vacuous - devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"
    Antonym: meaningful (indirect, via meaningless)
,Noun hollow has 3 senses
  1. hollow - a cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"
    --1 is a kind of
    cavity, enclosed space
  2. hollow, holler - a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians"
    --2 is a kind of valley, vale
    --2 has particulars: dell, dingle
  3. hole, hollow - a depression hollowed out of solid matter
    --3 is a kind of natural depression, depression
    --3 has particulars:
     burrow, tunnel; gopher hole; kettle hole, kettle; pit, cavity; pothole, chuckhole; rabbit burrow, rabbit hole; wormhole
    Derived forms: verb hollow1, verb hollow2
,Verb hollow has 2 senses
  1. excavate, dig, hollow - remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillsite"
    --1 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
    Derived form: noun hollow3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. hollow, hollow out, core out - remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"
    --2 is one way to empty
    Derived form: noun hollow3
    Sample sentence:
    They hollow the trees
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